For good measure, I took a diff of the hexdump of the two binaries. It looks like there was a single bitflip:

< 01b9f970: c780 6807 0000 0000 0000 48c7 c070 0700 ..h.......H..p..
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> 01b9f970: c780 6807 0000 0000 0000 48c7 8070 0700 ..h.......H..p..

This issue occured on my first playsession ...

From what I can tell, the factorio binary itself got corrupted.

Since it was mentioned, the c++ library being used by factorio has md5sum:

26b3d4ec128b9b6716dd4b8f1c205f9f /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6

And `sudo dpkg -V libstdc++6` reports no error.

In contrast, the factori binary with ...

The attached save file consistently crashes when attempting to build a space platform.

To Trigger:

* Load save file
* Click on rocket silo
* Click "Build new space platform"
* Click "Create"
* Hit escape to return to normal view.

What happens:
* Rocket Launches
* "Smoke me a kipper" awarded ...

Can you try changing to the modsetting kernel driver? See: viewtopic.php?f=49&t=21205

Switch to modesetting fixed it.

For reference, the command is

sudo apt-get uninstall xserver-xorg-video-intel

which causes the computer to fall back to the built in modesetting driver. The package ...

While playing, the video will randomly freeze. This happens both during game-play and while in the main menu. During this time, the game is still running (the sound plays), and if I switch to another work space and back, it works again (and, if I was walking while the video was frozen, the character ...